The Bobster
Senior News Editor since 2004
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Child Found Locked in Crawl Space
May 18, 2005 ”” The Big Story on Action News is about a young girl whom police say has been literally held captive in a crawl space for a couple of weeks.
The child had been reported missing 14 days ago. Missing person's leaflets have been plastered all over the neighborhood. You can imagine every body is shocked. Neighbors have been scouring the neighborhood, looking for the little girl, but they had no idea of the evil living in the basement.
"There appears to be some type of pan that was used for a bathroom facility. "
Before the police searched the row home and were unable to find the child. They decided to search the house a third time. When they went down in the base
ment, they noticed the guardian mother kept looking nervously toward the back of the basement steps. Underneath the steps, there was a door, but the door was hidden by a large panels of ply wood. Police say the child had nothing but a box of cereal.
But relatives say the child would never be harmed.
"They are not crazy."
"Are you saying this little girl did this to herself, hiding in the basement living like this.?"
"We searched the house two or three times before, and we decided to come back and search it again and the third time was successful."
The child is at St. Christopher S Hospital, being treated for severe dehydration.
Child Found Locked in Crawl Space
May 18, 2005 ”” The Big Story on Action News is about a young girl whom police say has been literally held captive in a crawl space for a couple of weeks.
The child had been reported missing 14 days ago. Missing person's leaflets have been plastered all over the neighborhood. You can imagine every body is shocked. Neighbors have been scouring the neighborhood, looking for the little girl, but they had no idea of the evil living in the basement.
"There appears to be some type of pan that was used for a bathroom facility. "
Before the police searched the row home and were unable to find the child. They decided to search the house a third time. When they went down in the base
ment, they noticed the guardian mother kept looking nervously toward the back of the basement steps. Underneath the steps, there was a door, but the door was hidden by a large panels of ply wood. Police say the child had nothing but a box of cereal.
But relatives say the child would never be harmed.
"They are not crazy."
"Are you saying this little girl did this to herself, hiding in the basement living like this.?"
"We searched the house two or three times before, and we decided to come back and search it again and the third time was successful."
The child is at St. Christopher S Hospital, being treated for severe dehydration.